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yf et _ Che Casper Daily Cridune MONDAY, JANUARY 15, 1923, field z °J_9 BARNE ’s Sti i k ' - i A re All M en Ali ke Y GOOGLE--Bamey’s Still Ab’ By Billey De Bec! = BULLETIN BOARD == : EXTRA °SEES SOAP EY TRA === £ By Arthur in: BARNEY GOOGLE accompanied bs y Stri ger BY HIS Famous Horse Author of “The Prairle Wife” "The House of Intrigue,” Etc. * SPARK-PLUG™ THis EVENING - z INSTALLMENT NO. THREE. DISCOVERED es NEw ORLEANS WwuaT A a 3 t “TRAVELING (A COGATO Suet I = slleibate IN THE CAST other afternoon,” but instinct told her Pus mn z jora Lydia Lorillard Hayden, | to suppress the impulse. AMMor 2 7 or lttle rich girl, sseks freedom| “In that case,” continued the su: e) “ ts ee ave ss Pitgy Baie) ~ @ a means of “epressing herself”| voice, “perhaps {t would be advisable| ore i Ppa bala) Fenting a studio in Greenwhich Vil-|for me to run up to see you, so that! &T Moon TODAY re. Taking her Art with a big A,| there may be no undue loss of tims.”| ALL BUSINESS HOUSES @ allows | _Teddte wavered, for all too recent WILL SUSPEND OPERATIONS. ¢ Raoul Uhlan, a well known portrait| events had been combining to test the 2 DURING CELEBRATION: : nter, to come three times a week to| metal of her emancipation. Yet dis 3 ve her instruction. At the third|turbed as sho'may have been, she was! MAYOR AND &tTyY Cowenmen ¢« Sit Uhlan casts aside all restraint/ not without still undrained reservoirs Of: RECEPTION @ommrrrec, ¥ t@ seizes 2nd kisses her tn spite of! of courage. wr protests and struggies. Leaving| “Yes, that might be better,” she| cake eh: PRos@am x or triumphantly he swears he will finally admitted. \reibehe abba rah Oo t durn “tomorrow at three.” “I shall be up within an hour,” was} Ts ~ Major Chandler Kans, Theodora’s|the crisp ultimatum with which the! Sane he Te acle, who admires and sympathizes brief colloquy was concluded. | ete tt i HA ~ ith his niece. He tells her life in| And Teddie, reverting to her pre- CHAMEER OF COMME RCE xe a waffle-iron, making every one|tense of working, felt more than ever to the same pattern. |alone in the world. Life seemed emp- Gunboat Dorgan, a lightweight prize|tier than on that black day when the! ghter, is summoned by Theodora to! butler, acting under orders from ‘ , bs < unish Uhlan for his insult and gives above-stairs, had drowned her mon PETEY DINK-..-- By Cc A Voight ye artist a beating. Theodora had|grel pup for merely eating. the = = : . == aggested os a reward that Dorgun tapestry off a library Chest ALLE | se her roadster, but to her surprise| @ kisses her, hinting that she is to| stared about And her new environme she Z » high-cellinged studio. | —Ay4, Nou SA WOMEN MAKE OH DEAR~1 HAVE Au Awrute GoovNess:!— Here's The — MoIHER!! — on, ( — IVe Hap ake the place in his heart which nad/ seemed to and as bald as that de-| een held by Ruby Reamer, ize fighter. the Waffle Iron’s Jaws Draw Closer. | QUINCE thinness of skin seems to stand un 1appy corollary to blueness of blood, | Theodora Lydia Lorillard Hayden, be- ng an aristocrat, even {ff one under with yrotest, found herself without that {n- turated armor which protects her yumbler fellow-beings from the buf- | ‘ets and shocks of fate. | So her spirit still winced at the hought of what she had passed hrough. Her body still alternately ~lushed with !ndignation and chilled with a tangle of fears. Something, she knew, was bound to happen. ) Yet what this was sho had neither he power nor the inclination to ‘fathom. She merely waited, sure only tof the recurring waves of desolation | which beat upon her soul. She even tetruggied to escape from this denud: ting loneliness, the next morning, by trying to lose herself in her work. But so small and trivial did that work | now stand to her that it seemed like trying to bury her bruised and burn-} Ting body in a bird-bath. | 1 Yet by both temperament and habit (she was averse to passivity. She hated the thought of sitting back in | nuded C an artists’ model tute of padded graces and relieving hrough whom Theodora had met the| softn: |ton, a thing of obtruding bones quite | barren of o immediate though un-} arrived terfield had stood, us desti-| sses, an empty and ugly skele- mfort. T accordingly relieved Tedd'e not « little, when Mr. Willlam Shotwell o find him quite urbane and although he did seem to sur- bald-looking studio ry frown of per- father!: vey her ple hen, removing his pince-nez, he| ‘aS at pains to remind her that he} met that estimable lady, her mother, during his activities as an officer of the Cooperative Social Set- tlement Society, and had dined with her equally estimable father three | years before at the annual banquet of| the Astronomical Club and stood in no way ignorant of the position and} prestige which her famfly might claim both {tn the Tuxedo colony and the Peetu Smee Terricce 13. Gone To HAPPEN—Bapd HEWS “OR Something — City itself. He appeared so reluctant to come/ to the point in fact that the none-| too-patient Teddie was compelled to) prod him on a bit. .And even then he seemed to hestitate so long that Ted-! aie with a sinking heart began to| wonder {f Raoul Uhlan had passed | away from his injuries and she was about to be cted as a murderess. | Seeing that sharp look of. distress| in her eyes, the attorney for the plain-| Me TIRED ag, Forcer VERY- THING'S Ate iT Bett— | Just KHow t's & Tececra WiTH Some AwFuu News — MotHere 1S PROBABLY SickK— On DEAR— Coomrmany Ke THRONE Ie So Giao— i WAS SCARED To A FEELING Ate DAN HAT Some- THING TERRIBLE WAS Golnc To HAPPEN— How Siler willing to meke his less good to him.”{ The aged attorney, as. he sat mas-! saging his bony knuckles, saw that! the picking was good. So he could) afford to become fatherly again. | © YOU ADOPT sKkEEzIx GASOLINE ALL NOU VE CEEN NERVQUS AgOUT AAD «BUTS AT TEN. | wie ~ oF ME” A NOTICE WAS PUBLISHED 4vague but enveloping apprehension of | tiff becamo more urbane than ever,|~.. - 3 | TOMORROW. WHAT TIME ... \ ATTORNEY SAYS NO BEFORE CHRISTMAS AND sare]. SVERY THING 18 jthe unknown. She reached a point,|and protested that from the first he| 4.1 Tay ne well be frank with you, ARE WE “TO BE IN COURT eee Tn Fe Oe Con Ot ) COMPLICATIONS. ARE NOTHING HAS BEEN HEARD re Cats in <n fact, where she would have been |had advocated adjustment of some| ies Hayden. and make it clear from WALT ? Wiican . IN SIGHT AND IT WiLL So ihe ee {Willing to see the blue deliver its bolt.| sort, a quiet and respectable settle-|th© Outset that involved with this 2 where she would have welcomed, for| ment out of court t would cast no claim is one for a corresponding ~ ‘the sheer relief of action, the end of| Jthat deluding interregnum of silence 2 silence, ar of sound sud “My Dear Giri,” he softly inton ed, with one hand stretched out in) to whether or not she would answer reflection 8 prominent of cour: humillating aps ." cried Te: the brink tell mo just wi this," responded William Shotwell, with, a slight evap- | | In | n e@ on the personal injuries: ™M Uhlan has received, in which, so far as medical science ble to determine, give e of proving permanent.” And there i# a further cl thousand dollars for costs and d'cal services, which establishes the tal claims at a round figure of twenty-five thousand dollars.” | ‘Teddie, who had sat watching him with rather solemn eyes, somewhat startled the sedate William Shotwell by a brief but scornful laugh. | “So that was rather an expensive) thump on the nose, wasn't it?" sho observed, with the last of her méek-| «s taking wing. For it began to| | dawn on her, Ignorant as she was of) the meaning of money, just what they) were trying to do to her. “I am not prepared to disagree with you,” admitted her enemy, not with- out acerbity. | “And did he tell you Just what he was doing when he got that thump on} jthe none?” demanded Teddie, with slowly rising indignation. “He was doing nothing, apparently, which demanded his—his heing maim- ed for life,” the man of tho law re-| | sponded with dignity. | “He wasn't maimed for Ufe,” de- jclared Teddle, with the last of her it he got exactly what he deserved. “PIVELAT, of course, is a matter not | for us but for the courts to de- cide,” remarked William Shotwell, with a lugubrious shake of the head. | ‘Then what's the use of us talking| about it now?” demanded Teddie, with a glance at her unfinished sketch of the Macauley Mission at Moonlight. | “It was merely to save you pain,” |remarked her benofactor as he rose from. his chair, “It seems rather an expensive anes- thetic,” observed Teddle, ‘at twenty-! five thousand dollars a whiff!"" | “am I to understand, then, that! you intend to contest this clatm?"| demanded the man of law, taking up} his hat i Tedd'e swung about on him, with a | little flush of anger on her magnolia- white cheeks. ‘Then, for once in her |life, discretion put a ‘hand on. the {sleeve of tmpulse. + | About her rebellious young body |che felt the phantasmal jaws of her) Uncle Charlton's waffle-lron coming closer and closer together. | “I must decline to enter into any discussion of the matter until I have on! Ou! THiS Is TH’ END — BeTcHea HoRace {s IN THere — tka Gontaia COMMIT SUICIDE — oR SomEPAI! CUBES NoPE ~ 1. CoNRZEONT HER. UNTH HEe PERFIDY—THEN ILUEAS THAT CaReoT-ToPPED BIMBa, LIMS ROM ~ Limsi! = > Honey CUBes-Bo Sweet — HUG ME ‘TioHT ~G ALLOPERS, STaY LAME ON ‘7 -- SMUGGLE PUPPY! WMNIE, 1 INSIST ON YOUR, Tarine THIS BLANK check 3D PAY FoR Your TROUSSEAU! AND DON'T SPARE ANY * €XPENSE. ‘ ’ WINNIE WINKLE, THE BREADWINNER. Winnie’s Trousseau Check WELL TT WAS CERTAINLY LDON'T KNOW YET, SVE KENNETH Ag ‘YE A BLANK CHECK To FoR YER TROUSSEAU TY MUCH AS I CAN ft ~ER- WHAT D'YE SPOSE TH' HULL. THING IS GONNA WELLTAKE MY TIP AN’ DON'T BE A SUCKER MAKE THAT CHECK OUT FOR APLENTY! AFTER. YER MARRIED HE WON'T that call. oration of urbanity and a correspond-| seen my attorney,” she sald with oe BE HANDIN' OUT But besides being tired of silence|ing hardening of face-lines: \dignity. Tt was what was usually CcosT YE 2? CHECKS So EASY !! and indecision, she was a person of| client, Raoul Uhlan, ts now under the! caid, she remembered, at all such| habitual promptitude in movement.| care of a doctor, under the care of) junctures. | Bo temperament in the end asserted iteelf. With a deep breath, she took | two doctors, I might add, as the re- | sult of an assault which he sustained "Then might I inquire just who j¥your attorney {s?” inquired William the receiver from its hook and an-| in this studio some twenty-four hours| Shotwell swered the call “r ‘Wiltam Shotwell, or member of the firm Attridge & Bannister, speak @ suave and dignified voice an the wire. “And the ing,’ nounced over been wondering, Miss Hayden, would be convenient for you to drop it €own to my office some time this afternoon for a short conference?” “And what would be the object of that conference?” inquired Teddle, as coolly as she was able. “That, I'm afraid, {s a matter ft would be inexpedicnt to discuss over the telephone,"’ was the none too tran- quillizing response. “But I might mention that the client whose tnter- ests I am compelled to look after tn this case is Mr. Raoul Uhlan the well- u ine: a direc ‘oF pI tly 7 C y * 7 | known portratt-paint jeune’ rire lone of ‘exactly! own, I am compelled to say that I] which can make two tnn: peent v ds | bowed himaslt ponvonsly by swith Bho was awakened from that little| (ow Teddies declared her indepen-| A cold chill crept up through | r rake think you are taking the wrong/so unmistakably dismissive, “For 'Tod-|frown of perplexity x" |reverie of self-pity by the repeated | qoncé {s told in tomorrow's install radtiets ody D aigh of relief esc 7 in this, IT know whereof I] dfe was worried, Fer a mément of/young. brow and a welght on her} oii of ner telephone bell. So whe-| mene | T realty nk it would be| Bhe ha speak, You are too young too inno-| two, tideed, whe felt terribly afraid) troubled young heart. she felt Ike &| Ose 4g o her desk and t 7 possible sown to your ch worse, » cent, too—er—too aweat, to ba draggoi| that he was going to kine her, Aud Baa othe fate tka |'20 the veontve OA new text office’ she said in an exceptionally Micult of add ‘without knowing wh ou have during the Inat da no, whe rete od hey Dale eoattarra Deak Siena “einen ied Air eney ‘Works é controlled voice. She was going to if that’s al t's worrying face into the britalities and humilla-|bered, there hind been altogether too] a thirty-footer being pounded by a bi tuby peak enry Weekhar J * & , ¢ ntic he fe! 1 a! sali loe over its thread of metal,! t lantation ubber indr ts adé “Hither this afterncon or any him,” she remarked, ‘I'll be quiic tions of litigation lke ¢t Indeed, much of that sort of thing. cod!and brutal Atla Bhe felt like a/ sald 8 threa he plante rubber agC sald Teddle, | familiar feeling of a miscreant being called up for reproof ‘That assault was condoned, and, 1 am given to understand, was person: ally instigated abetted by you, Miss Hayden,” continued the enemy. fr. Uhlan {s not only a gentleman of high social and professional stand- ing, but is today one of the best-paid portrait-painters in America. “Through the injuries which he sus- tained in this assault, I find, he is un- able to. execute a commieston for the portrait of one of Pittsburgh's most prominent millionatres, before the lat- ter sails for Europe. And through that, I regret to inform you, he has with the quite) | And Teddle's dignity, for a moment betrayed serious evidences of collaps ing. She had no attorney. She didn't leven know of any attorney. But sho couldn't afford to betray her {solation | “You will hear from him in due time,” she said with what was plainly n valedictory smile, as she preceded |her persecutor to the door. But her persccutor exhibited no signs of taking his departure. Instead, {he stepped closer, seeming to suffer some mysterious inward deliquescence 1s he studied her with a sympathetic {f slightly watery eyo. “My dear girl," he softly intoned, with one hand stretched’ out in her direction, ‘as a friend of your family —and I trust I’may regard myself as suoh—but more as a friend of your my child, I think too much of you,| of your——” "(JOOD. afternoon,” interrupted Ted- that rising Inflection dle with afternoon, . nality, as she opened the door the wall. Bhe stocd there, even arter he had| Avenue, ] ) she, repeated with frapped hothouse orchid that had been blown | and I guess I've got nd | out of a counelet window and was be-| speakin’ to do with you.’ swung it wide, with her back against |ing trampled on by all the heels and run over by all the wheels of Fifta (Copyright, 1922, by the Bell cate, Inc.) Syndi qualities unsur- other textile, being bulk for bulk possers by any ue ren